mammogram
mammogram
Definition
mam·mo·gram (mam′ə gram′)
noun
an X-ray obtained by mammography
mammogram
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- have: Of these 8 women with breast cancer, 7 will have a positive mammogram.
- get: She does, however, think a woman my age should get a mammogram every two years.
- read: Medical Teams Radiologists read the mammograms to identify possible cancers.
- offer: Screening Depending on your age, you may be offered a mammogram.
- include: Where necessary, treatments that include mammograms, cervical smears, hormone tests, bone density scans, are available.
- donate: The number of people visiting the site directly affects the number of mammograms donated.
Adjective modifier
- yearly: Yearly mammograms for women over 50 years of age.
- routine: This will be aimed at women who are receiving their last routine mammogram within the NHS Breast Screening Program.
- regular: Being breast aware and having regular mammograms will not prevent you from developing breast cancer.
- positive: Of these 8 women with breast cancer, 7 will have a positive mammogram.
- digital: In the medical field for example, different hospitals hold millions of digital mammograms, which could be put into a digital format.
- further: Frequently the examination and the further mammograms show that the initial abnormalities are harmless.
Modifies a noun
- machine: Proceeds to be divided between Air Ambulance and ATAC - Action Taken Against Cancer - for digital mammogram machine, Warwick Hospital.
- screening: So a breast cancer that develops in the 3 years between mammogram screening would be called an interval cancer.
- image: The effect of this process will be as if mammogram images were all produced on one machine at a single site.
Noun used with modifier
- screening: Subjects were 125 women over the age of 50 undergoing screening mammograms.
Preposition: in
- exchange: The corporate sponsors use the number of daily visits to donate a certain number of mammograms in exchange for advertising.
Preposition: for
- woman: Yearly mammograms for women over 50 years of age.
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